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I’ve written this topical piece on the current state of things as I see them in the effort to make open source ventilators. https://medium.com/@RobertLeeRead/the-state-of-open-source-ventilator-projects-as-of-march-21st-1f36bfb608b4

You Don’t Have to be an Engineer to be a Public Inventor Engineering skills are useful in many invention projects, but many of the people already working on Public Invention teams do not have an engineering background. Part of the rationale for Public Invention is that technical developments in the last couple of decades (including …

The 7-Tet Tetrobot, a Public Invention Many of us hear the song of the maker. As Dorothy Sayers has pointed out in the “Mind of the Maker”, making is a participation in, or at least a simulation of, the divine. It has always been so, but it has never been easier. Today, we have maker …

The Glussbot, a Tetrobot invented by Public Invention. Public Invention is a non-profit whose mission is to “invent in the public, for the public”, and our first 43 projects can be found here. Our goal is to create humanitarian projects that conform to our mission, and to coach these projects to create inventions that make us all …

Inventors are the most spectacular causative agents of humanity’s progress. Today invention mostly occurs within commercial firms and universities. Commercial firms primarily seek profit. Universities seek both money and renown from invention. Both firms and universities, the two great poles of the landscape of invention today, seek to temporarily monopolize inventions through patents and other means …